What's the best way to replace links with JS functions?

Question

A pattern that\'s started to show up a lot in one of the web apps I\'m working are links that used to just be a regular a-tag link now need a popup box asking \"are you sure?\"

Answer 1

Here's how we've been doing it:

Go to new page`

function goThere() 
{ 
   if( confirm("Are you sure?") ) 
    { 
       window.location.href="newPage.aspx"; 
    } 
}

(EDIT: Code reformatted to avoid horizontal scroll)